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The Test Set by Posit

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Data Science
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A Posit podcast for data science junkies, anomaly hunters, and those who play outside the confidence interval. Hosted by Michael Chow, with co-hosts Wes McKinney & Hadley Wickham.

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Paige Bailey is a developer relations engineering lead at Google DeepMind. She's a geophysicist-turned-AI-engineer who was once told by her professors that building open-source libraries was a waste of time. We talk about her path from planetary scie... more

Vincent Warmerdam has been the first full-time hire at a startup, a spacey punster who accidentally got himself a job, a bartender at an Amsterdam comedy theater, and a Dutch bike tour guide — and he'll tell you all of it was career development. Now ... more

Benn Stancil built Mode Analytics, spent a decade in the data trenches, and now writes some of the sharpest, funniest essays in the data world. On The Test Set, he talks about the cultural shift from Nate Silver to Rick Rubin why AI might kill the an... more

dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy drops into The Test Set to map the fault lines between the data science world and the enterprise data world — and explain why analytics engineers are basically pissed-off data analysts who decided to organize the bookshelf.... more

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Vincent Warmerdam
First full-time hire at Marimo, founder of comcode.io
Marimo; comcode.io
Episode: Widgets Are Lego Bricks (and Other Things People Are Sleeping On) — with Vincent Warmerdam
Benn Stancil
Writer and former Mode data leader
Substack, Mode
Episode: Everything's a Fad (Including This Podcast) — with Benn Stancil
Tristan Handy
CEO of dbt Labs
dbt Labs
Episode: Deeply Unsexy: SQL's Redemption Arc — with Tristan Handy
Nell Thomas
Vice President of Data at Shopify
Shopify
Episode: Your VP Is Doing a Rogue Analysis in Cursor Right Now — with Nell Thomas
Philip Cloud
Principal software engineer at Nvidia; lead on the Ibis project; early Pandas contributor
Nvidia
Episode: Sleeping Rats and Sociopathic Agents — with Phillip Cloud
Charlie Marsh
Founder and CEO of Astral, developer of tools for Python
Astral
Episode: More productive but a lot less fun — with Charlie Marsh
Alenka Frim
Data engineer, software developer, and Iyengar yoga teacher
Apache Arrow
Episode: Alenka Frim: What yoga teaches us about discipline and collaboration in data science
Rebecca Barter
Senior Data Scientist at Arine and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Utah
Arine
Episode: Rebecca Barter: Persistent learning, tool building, and ‘Will code even exist?’
Marco Gorelli
Software engineer at Quantite Labs and creator of Narwhals
Quantite Labs
Episode: Marco Gorelli: Narwhals, ecosystem glue, and the value of boring work

Hosts

Michael Chow
Host of The Test Set; Principal Software Engineer at Posit; active in open-source tooling and data science communities
Wes McKinney
Co-host, Principal Architect / Co-host at Posit; prominent figure in data tooling and Python ecosystem
Hadley Wickham
Co-host; Chief Scientist at Posit; key contributor to R and data tooling

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Sleeping Rats and Sociopathic Agents — with Phillip Cloud
Q: What are your thoughts on the most exciting development for developers today, especially regarding AI and productivity?
He reflects that AI is intriguing but not the sole driver; the key is developer productivity and the way AI changes how we measure and improve it, along with how tools like VS Code and modern CLIs have reshaped workflows.
Sleeping Rats and Sociopathic Agents — with Phillip Cloud
Q: Catch us up on your path into open source tools like Ibis and your broader background.
Philip describes a long arc from Matlab/ LabVIEW experiences in mixed-discipline labs to Python-based data tooling, and eventually contributing to Pandas and driving Ibis; his focus has always been practical data analysis workflows and expanding the reach of open-source projects.
More productive but a lot less fun — with Charlie Marsh
Q: What excites you for the future?
Charlie is optimistic about the changes in software development and standards around package management.
More productive but a lot less fun — with Charlie Marsh
Q: What is UV?
UV is an all-in-one Python packaging binary that installs Python, manages installations, creates virtual environments, and resolves dependencies.
More productive but a lot less fun — with Charlie Marsh
Q: How did you get into the field?
Charlie taught himself to program the summer before college, studied computer science at Princeton, and started working as a software engineer at Khan Academy.

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The show centers on data tooling, data platforms, and the evolving role of AI in data science, with frequent deep dives into open-source ecosystems, governance, and the practical realities of building and operating modern analytics stacks. Episodes mix founder and engineering leadership conversations with practitioner perspectives, covering topics like SQL-centric tooling, data transformations, AI-assisted coding, visualization and debugging, and the human aspects of running data teams. Notable threads include the rise of notebook-focused workflows, the tension between artisanal engineering and rapid AI-enabled development, and the ongoing evolution of the modern data stack, analytics engineering, and open-source tooling. The format often f... more

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